Aircrafts - Page 6 - Recent Questions, Troubleshooting & Support

The cost in designing, developing, and testing an aircraft is staggering!!! Defense contractors as those you mention have extremely strict regulations to follow regarding export control and no equipment is sold to a foreign government without the express approval of the US gov't.

English has been established by the ICAO as the universal language of aviation. It was necessary to establish one language for international flights to ensure safe and understandable communications world wide.

You're stuck with a water landing (ditching). Hopefully at altitude the pilot can see a ship and make the landing in the vicinity of the ship for quick rescue. It so rare for a plane to lose power to all engines though that you should never hear of such an incident. Depending on the route, however, Bermuda may be within gliding distance.

Religion is completely irrelevant in determining how good a pilot may be.

You need to visit a recruiter to find that out.

Go visit a flight school near you and talk to an instructor. Find out about getting a sport pilot certificate first because it's the cheapest way to start flying. If you have any kind of feeling that you and the instructor won't get along very well then go find a different instructor. You need one who will make it fun to learn to fly, even with all the stress involved with learning new things.

It shouldn't make much difference if the questions have changed because you were only practicing with questions "like" the ones in the test. By now you've taken the test. Hope you did well!

Using the old (pre GPS) method you would use the sectional and plotter (aviation ruler) and measure the distance. Using a GPS you can usually turn on distance rings on the screen or if you have the airport selected as destination you can read it right off the screen. If it's your home base you should learn the landmarks and their distances from the airport. In the Miami area, there are so many airports and landmarks, if you're flying there, during your preflight preps you should measure out distances to some landmarks that you plan to pass over and mark them on the chart or flight log.

In an airliner you are often cruising at 580 knots at about 35000 feet. When you look out at this altitude you are seeing (let's say) 40 miles so a car, if you can pick it out, moving at 70 mph in a 40 mile field of view isn't going to look like it's moving fast at all. By the time it has driven one mile you've flown about 12 miles and probably lost sight of the car.

Many of the current general aviation planes now come with a ballistic parachute from BRS.

The safest time to fly is after such an incident because all pilots are double checking themselves to make sure it doesn't happen to them.

Go to your local airport and talk with an instructor. That doesn't cost anything and they'll be happy to answer any of your questions. You can go for a sport pilot license first because it's the quickest cheapest way to get in the air. Then if you "catch the flying bug" you can progress to a private pilot certificate.

Embry Riddle is one of the most expensive colleges you can attend for flight. There are many others such as University of Cincinnati and University of North Dakota that offer college programs in flight and aviation. Airlines do want college degrees so it's really a pretty good idea. I'd check out tuitions at other colleges that offer aviation.

You may notice that wings are usually curved at the top and fairly flat on the bottom. This causes the air over the top of the wing to move faster and therefore have a lower pressure than the air under the wing. The lower pressure mixed with the high pressure under the wing cause "lift". You can demonstrate this by holding a sheet of paper at one edge and blowing over the top of it. The paper will rise as you blow due to the low pressure you're creating by the faster air flow. It's called Bernoulli's principle.

Departure controllers have blocks of airspace with altitude limits. Chances are that there was other traffic that they needed to have out of the way so they held him at 5000 before clearing him to the next controller's airspace.

You need a college degree and then join the military or go to a military college like the USAF Academy. They will put you through all the pilot training.

Students and certificated pilots both are required to remain current and to have a check ride (flight review with an instructor) every 24 calendar months. The ones you're seeing are probably going out to the practice area to practice their flight maneuvers. If a pilot doesn't practice regularly his or her skills can deteriorate rapidly.

They go through very intense training to be able to sequence aircraft safely. If there's a controller then there's at least a Class D area and all aircraft operating in that area must contact tower and let them know where they are and what they want to do. This is the information that lets them determine when it's clear.

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Older planes are usually very good purchases, IF they have been well maintained over the years. Airplanes have to be inspected annually by an A&P mechanic with an Inspection Authorization so they are usually very well maintained. Any purchase should include having an A&P mechanic review the airframe and engine logs and evaluation of the plane, including looking at how many hours the engine has since overhaul and checking compression. I had a 1966 Cherokee 140 for several years and finally sold it when I bought my current Experimental aircraft (a BD-4). It helps a LOT if you can get an A&P license and maintain you own plane though.